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Nominations Announced for the 2025 BESSIE AWARDS
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 25, 2025

The New York Dance and Performance Awards, known as THE BESSIES, will announce the 2024 and 2025 honorees at a ceremony on January 20 at Dixon Place. This year’s nominations span choreography, performance, design, and revival categories.

Review: GRUPO CADABRA DAZZLES with HERMAN CORNEJO in ANIMA ANIMAL at The Joyce Theater
by Christina Pandolfi - Feb 20, 2025

Argentinian-based dance group Grupo Cadabra made their New York premiere on February 18th at The Joyce Theater with the dazzling contemporary ballet, Anima Animal. Featuring ABT Principal Dancer Herman Cornejo, who reimagined this ballet from a century-old Nijinsky idea, the piece was a true exploration on the power of evolution: what does it mean to be part of a collective? And then, what does it mean when an individual defies the status quo to go their own way?

Cuba's Malpaso Dance Company Returns to Boston
by Stephi Wild - Dec 10, 2024

Celebrity Series of Boston will present the return engagement of Malpaso Dance Company, Cuba’s foremost contemporary dance ensemble, for three performances. Learn more here!

Review: Pam Tanowitz, Artists at the Center Presents SONG OF SONGS at New York City Center
by Marina Kennedy - Nov 11, 2023

New York City Center is presenting the NYC premiere of 'Song of Songs' featuring gorgeous choreography by Pam Tanowitz perfectly set to David Lang’s exceptional choral music performed live on stage.

Pam Tanowitz to Return to The Royal Ballet in February
by Blair Ingenthron - Jan 21, 2023

Critically acclaimed choreographer Pam Tanowitz will present her second world premiere for The Royal Ballet this Season as part of a special programme in the Linbury Theatre. Hot on the heels of her November mainstage debut Dispatch Duet, Tanowitz's latest offering for the Company will be presented alongside the first revival of her acclaimed ballet Everyone Keeps Me and a film screening of Dispatch Duet.

Toshio Hosokawa's HANJO Comes to NYU Skirball Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Aug 9, 2022

NYU Skirball will present the North American premiere of Toshio Hosokawa’s Hanjo, directed by Luca Veggetti and produced by Catapult Opera, on Friday, September 30  at 7:30 pm and Sunday, October 2 at 2:00 pm at NYU Skirball. Neal Goren conducts.

Pam Tanowitz & David Lang's SONG OF SONGS to Make World Premiere as Part of Bard SummerScape 2022
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 14, 2022

The Fisher Center at Bard will present a project that exemplifies its place on the cultural landscape: a new dance setting of the biblical Song of Songs created by the Fisher Center’s internationally celebrated choreographer-in-residence, Pam Tanowitz, with new music from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang.

Karole Armitage To Present A PANDEMIC NOTEBOOK At New York Live Arts, March 16-19
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 1, 2022

Internationally acclaimed choreographer and “punk ballerina” Karole Armitage presents A Pandemic Notebook, a collection of world premieres with her company Armitage Gone! Dance, March 16–19, at New York Live Arts.

Bard SummerScape 2022 Announced
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 22, 2022

 Bard SummerScape will return this year with eight weeks of live dance, theater, music, and opera in New York’s Hudson Valley, June 23–August 14, 2022. SummerScape 2022 presents the world premieres of new commissions in both dance and theater.

PEAK Performances to Present Company SBB // Stefanie Batten Bland's LOOK WHO'S COMING TO DINNER
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 23, 2021

PEAK Performances will present Company SBB // Stefanie Batten Bland’s dance-theater work Look Who’s Coming to Dinner, November 4-7 at Montclair State University’s Alexander Kasser Theater.